Bad Timing

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One clear message to the Home Secretary arises from the Abu Qatada debacle: check your dates. And given the Home Office’s calamitous propensity to make this kind of mistake, check them again. And again. Do not tell the House of Commons that you are confident that lawyers for the radical cleric have missed the deadline for his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights unless you can substantiate, in a cast-iron fashion, why you are so sure.

Theresa May’s extremely disappointing performance in the Commons yesterday has undermined what until now was a praiseworthy process for deporting a terrorist